Wednesday, September 3, 2025

A Room of My Own: Night of Silent Dreams Tanka

the fire crackling
as smoke snakes up ...
one family
three campfires and two dogs
on a night of silent dreams


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back and forth
between midnight barks
distant gunshots 


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ice jamming 
at a railway bridge ...
just one more 
bear hug to remember
his son's cold body


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slanted moonlight
through a crack in the blinds ...
awake alone
as my thoughts wander back
to the love long gone 


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despair
I murmur to myself  ...
the weight of it
the way it sounds and feels
in the gathering dark

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